Wadi
Wadi Mujib
72 km from source to mouth · Jordan.
JordanFlows into Dead Sea2nd longest in Jordan
In numbers
Length
72km
Average flow
3.8m³/s
Basin
2,058km²
Drop
944m
from 719 m to -225 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
72 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 719 m
- 72 kmDead Seaat -225 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River canyon in Jordan
At the mouth it carries 3.8 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 652 seconds. It drops from 719 m to -225 m, 13 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,058 km², about the size of MU. 294,000 people live in it. Highest water: January; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Al ‘ArīḑA town on its banks
- Queen Alia International Airport (AMM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 37 km from the cityCar hire at AMM airport (Amman)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to June and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Wadi Mujib, month by month
Highest water: January
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from April to June and from September to October.
From about 0.3 m³/s in the lowest month to 10 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Wadi Mujib: the basin in numbers
2,058 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 294,000people live in the basin
- 142/km²people per km²
- 744maverage altitude of the basin
- 222mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 16.4°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 10% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 9% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Wadi Mujib: what you find on the way
- 1Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Wadi Mujib in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
5mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (5)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jabal al Qidrah9.3 km away
- Jabal al Maḑba‘ah3.0 km away
- Tulūl al Ḩammām11 km away
- Tall Burayk6.9 km away
- Zumaylāt al Jarādī7.6 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Wadi Mujib in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Jordan252 km52 m³/s17 km awayZarqa RiverJordan65 km6.5 m³/s73 km awayWadi Auja
Palestine208 km47 m³/s48 km awayYarkon River
Israel28 km12 m³/s106 km awayYarmukIsrael57 km2.6 m³/s132 km awayKishon RiverIsrael70 km7.6 m³/s160 km awayLitani River
Lebanon140 km23 m³/s212 km awayHasbani RiverLebanon65 km5.0 m³/s194 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2120208) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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